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- Title
Teachers' Relational Competencies: the Contribution from Teacher Education.
- Authors
Laursen, F.; Nielsen, Anne Maj
- Abstract
Research has thoroughly documented that good social relations in school are important and effective for students' academic learning and well-being alike. It is also well-documented that having good social relations in a class requires the teacher to have relational competencies. This article presents experiences of relational work in the classroom described by student teachers who participated in a development project that aimed to include relational competencies in the pre-service teacher education curriculum compared to student teachers following the ordinary teacher education programme at VIA University College, Aarhus, Denmark. An interview survey of student teachers' preliminary output in the spring of 2014 were phenomenologically based, qualitative, and were in-depth asking for detailed descriptions of significant incidents as they were experienced by the student teachers during their recent pre-service training. The interviews showed that student teachers taking part in the project had acquired a relationship with the teacher's role that was more reflective and experimenting than the student teachers following the ordinary program. Halfway through a four-year process with particular emphasis on relational competencies, the student teachers participating in the project are taking a more reflective and experimental approach to the teacher's role. Although this may not be a fully developed relational competence, it is presumably a significant step along the way.
- Subjects
STUDENTS &; society; TEACHER-student relationships; TEACHING &; society; TEACHER education; STUDENT teachers
- Publication
Šolsko Polje, 2016, Vol 27, Issue 1/2, p139
- ISSN
1581-6036
- Publication type
Article